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I’m guessing that many Virginia Woolf common readers and scholars will be traveling to London Sign PostLondon this year and next, since the 2016 and 2017 Annual International Conferences on Virginia Woolf will be held in England — this year in Leeds and next year in Reading.

No doubt they’ll be looking for Woolf’s London, including all of the places she lived and the streets Clarissa Dalloway walked.

So now is a good time to share a few fun resources that will help visitors eat, sleep and shop as Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group did.

For more tips on traveling in the steps of Virginia Woolf, visit In Her Steps. This page includes travel tips for London and beyond. It also includes links to Woolf tours, both audio and in-person.

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Since 2010, scholars of Virginia Woolf from Japan and Korea have held joint conferences on Woolf, exchanging thoughts andVirginia Woolf sharing friendship. Now, in an effort to increase participation, the 2016 conference is expanding its reach to Woolf scholars in all nations.

The 3rd Korea-Japan Virginia Woolf Conference 2016, Virginia Woolf and Her Legacy in the Age of Globalization, will be held Aug. 25-26, 2016,at Kookmin University, in Seoul, Korea. The two-day conference will focus on critical issues related to Woolf’s legacy in the age of globalization.

Call for Papers

Papers from scholars in any country are welcome. Possible topics might include:

  • Virginia Woolf studies in Asia
  • Woolf and Victorianism
  • Woolf and modernism
  • Woolf and life-writing
  • Woolf and post-humanism
  • Woolf in the age of postConference Conference -feminism.
  • Papers on any other topics that will refresh our perspectives on Woolf’s works and widen the horizon of Woolf studies are also welcome.

Please send 250-word abstracts in English and a one-page CV to the office of the Virginia Woolf Society of Korea at woolfkorea@gmail.com by Jan. 15, 2016. You will receive the official notification of acceptance by March 15, 2016.

Conference Registration

Regular Fee: 50 USD

Fee for Graduate Students: 25 USD

Important Dates

Abstracts/Papers Submission Date: Jan. 15, 2016

Notification of Acceptance (by Email): March 15, 2016

Final Papers for Conference Proceedings: July 15, 2016

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Here is the basic information about next year’s Virginia Woolf conference, the 26th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf and Heritage, which will be held June 16-19, 2016, at Leeds Trinity University in Leeds, England.

26th Woolf conference banner

According to the conference website:

“This conference will investigate how Woolf engaged with heritage, and how she understood and represented it. One strand will look at her experience of the heritage industry, for example: libraries, museums, art galleries, authors’ houses, artists’ houses, stately homes, London’s heritage sites, and tourist sites in Britain and abroad.

“Alternatively, the topic encompasses Woolf’s constructions of heritage, including literary heritage, intellectual heritage, the history of women and the history of lesbians. The conference will also consider ways in which Woolf has been represented and even appropriated by the heritage industry, for example in virtual and physical exhibitions; libraries, archives and collections; plaques, memorials, and statues; and at National Trust or other properties such as Monk’s House and Knole.”

Location: Leeds Trinity University, Brownberrie Lane LS18 5HD, Leeds, England.
Dates: Thursday, June 16 – Sunday, June 19, 2016
Email: Woolf2016@leedstrinity.ac.uk.
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/virginiawoolf2016/timeline
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/385532108295455/

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Georgetown College

Georgetown College

After this year’s conference focused on Woolf and the City, it seems only fitting that the 20th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf should focus on “Virginia Woolf and the Natural World.”

It will be held June 3 to 6, 2010, at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky, which, organizers say, is “located on 104 acres of beautiful Kentucky bluegrass.” Georgetown is located 10 miles north of Lexington off I-75.

All proposals for papers, panels, workshops or readings will be considered, but organizers are especially interested in those relating to the conference theme. Topics might include:

  • flowers
  • rythms of nature
  • Cornwal or St. Ives
  • country homes and estates
  • sailing
  • nature as restorative
  • nature as punitive
  • Woolf and ecology
  • Woolf and the environment
  • gardens and gardeners
  • seascapes
  • farmers and farming
  • hunting
  • parks and zoos
  • landscapes
  • vacations
  • hiking
  • prehistory
  • city versus nature
  • animals — animality, animal imagery, domestic animals, animal pet names
  • teaching Woolf and nature

A more complete call for papers will be available soon.

For more information, contact conference organizer Kristin Czarnecki at kristin_czarnecki@georgetowncollege.edu.

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